Welcome to Theatre at Grand Valley!

Please visit our campus and facilities! Just email lanejack@gvsu.edu or call 616-331-8176 to set an opportunity to talk with one of our professors and take a tour of our facilities! Click on the image to view a larger version.

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Or click here to go to our Shakespeare Dress Circle donation page and check out our donation levels and benefits!

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Upcoming Events & Important Information

Incoming Freshmen and Transfer Students - If you would like to schedule a tour, talk to a professor, and see one of our shows for free, please contact Jack Lane at lanejack@gvsu.edu!

GV ShakespeareFestival's Summer Camp for Kids, Will Power, will be back again this year! Please click on the poster on the right for more details and flyer! Our week long camp is July 13-17 and July 20-24.

Don't miss this fall's Shakespeare Festival's production, All's Well That Ends Well. Click here to see more information.

This Fall combine Shakespeare's All's Well That Goes Well and Family Weekend. Click here to go to the Family Weekend homepage!

Read the School of Communications' Expressions and Theatre Alumni, Scott Watson and Paul Collins, by clicking here.

Congratulations to Jill Dole Hamilton (GVSU's Costume Designer/Theatre Facility Manager) and GVSU graduate, Matt Fowler, for their Certificates of Merit in 2014 from The Kennedy Center! Jill's Certificate is for Costume Design and Matt's is for Direction of our PS Show, Beyond Therapy.

Bicycling Event to support the CLAS John Allegrina Scholarship June 28. Read more by clicking here.

New Theatre Financial Aid Procedures are now in place. Current and prospective students should go to the GVSU website and search for the new link: MyScholarships. You must complete an application first, submit it, and then you will see all GVSU scholarships, and you can highlight Theatre awards. This new page gives you information and allows you to apply! Scholarships and Assistantships are due again on March 1, 2016.

Will Power Summer Camp for Kids

Please click the image for an order form. Prices are $110 for one child and $95 for two.

Our 2015 - 2016 Season

More performances, dates, and times still to come!

Stratford Trip 2014

Twenty two Theatre students accompanied by Jim Bell and Karen Libman attended the production of The Beaux’ Stratagem at the Stratford Festival. This fall, professor Bell is teaching a class on Restoration Comedy Dramaturgy that coincides with the upcoming production of Restoration Comedy in April. Restoration Comedy is an adaptation of two Restoration period comedies-Loves Last Shift and The Relapse . The Dramaturgy class is an intensive study of the nature of Restoration period comedies including reading numerous examples. But in theatre seeing is always believing. As such, the opportunity to see a Restoration comedy performed by a professional company was too good to pass up. Half of the students who attended were from Bell’s Dramaturgy class and read the play in preparation. The production was outstanding and very much enjoyed by all. The Grand Valley Theatre students were an exemplary and enthusiastic audience. The stars aligned in that the production closed on October 11 with a Saturday matinee. This allowed the group to see the production after the close of the Shakespeare Festival that would have conflicted for many of the students, and allowed the group to travel to see the production and return in one day, saving on costs.

Theatre and Other Links

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An update from Whitney Hershberger: Since graduation I have completed a year of service with AmeriCorps at Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids, where I received hands-on experience with non-profit administration. During my year of service I also t

Theatre alum pursues comedy dreams in LA! Jill Zwarensteyn (Theatre, 2009) moved to LA in 2010 and is already working in the business! Universal Pictures just hired her to promote the film &quot;Hop&quot; at different events throughout Los Angeles. Since

For two sessions in July, GVSU will host its fourth annual WILL POWER SUMMER CAMP and host dozens of local children.
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